Unified Communications (UC) is revolutionizing how projects are managed in our ever-globalizing world. Can you imagine how hard it can be to coordinate a project team spread across various time zones? Traditional communication methods could bog things down, and create snarls that no project manager ever wants to deal with. This is where UC comes in — transforming what could be a chaotic mess into a finely-tuned interactions that are effective.

When expanding your business, sometimes finding the right talent can be challenging. You can hire a full-time employee or find the best freelancer for the job. This blog post discusses five simple steps to hire a freelancer that will fit your needs!

The importance of employee engagement for the success of any firm is becoming increasingly generally recognized. A highly engaged workforce not only produces more and is more profitable, but it also has a lower turnover rate, which can save a company a significant amount of money. One strategy to raise employee engagement is to give them more responsibility for their projects.

A recent poll conducted by Apna.co offers valuable insights into the reasons behind the decision of many professionals to stay with a single firm for extended periods of time, in a time when career transfers are common. With the evaluation season quickly approaching, this poll sought to unravel the expectations and objectives of today’s workforce by gathering opinions from 10,000 professionals in a variety of sectors.

Serving as a link between the hiring process and complete integration into the organization, onboarding is an essential stage in the employee lifecycle. Productivity, work happiness, and employee retention can all be strongly impacted by a well-organized onboarding process. Onboarding strategies need to change with businesses, and they can benefit from ongoing innovation and improvement.

OKRs stand for objectives and key results, a goal-setting framework that can help your team set and track measurable goals. Originally pioneered by John Doerr, this framework pairs the company-level objectives you want to achieve with the key results you’ll use to measure progress—so your goals are tied to your team’s day-to-day work. In this article, we explain how the OKR process works and share examples to get you started setting OKRs for your company, team, or personal life.

We’re in the project economy—where a large part of our work revolves around innovating a new product or service. Even if you’re not a project manager, you might have embraced the responsibilities of one to manage a project at some point and would have utilized project planning. The art of project planning requires strategic thinking about how to achieve a desired goal.

Exit interviews have changed from a formal process to a strategic tool that can have a big effect on a company’s ability to find and keep skilled workers in today’s competitive talent management market. In the past, these interviews were meant to get closure from employees leaving. But now, forward-thinking businesses are using the information they get to not only figure out but also fix the problems that cause workers to leave.